«Of course it’s a disaster!» he says as he angrily heaves the plastic boxes of dead fish out of his boat. The dream of ecological tourism – shattered? Mescherin, a village of not even 800 ...

That raises the odds that just hatched fish will mistake plastic bits for food and eat them. “The most critical moment is that first feeding,” Whitney said. “If they get a piece of plastic ...

Raw scenes like this, which lay bare the toll of plastic on wildlife, have become familiar: The dead albatross ... That would be very confusing.” Fish such as anchovies, Savoca has found ...

As the plastic piles up, fish disappear. Since industrialised fishing began in the mid-twentieth century ... Anyone who owns a fish tank knows you need air bubbling through it because the fish inside ...